"There's no magic to running far or climbing Everest. Endurance is mental strength. It's all about heart." -Bear Grylls, Host of Man vs. Wild via Runner's World
"Running, as in life, isn't about hours and minutes - it's about heart. The difficult moments you face where you can either CRUMBLE or you can CONQUER." ... via Daily Mile
"Whatever it is, if it doesn’t make you happy, walk away, give it away to someone else who wants it. Let it be their next dream; let it flee from you. Then you have room to grow, to allow magnificent things to fill the vacuum of those seemingly empty places." -Jody Endersbe Groebner
"We won’t stretch, grow, or learn if we wait endlessly for the perfect moment to start on the perfect path. There is no perfect path. There is just what makes sense in this moment, and what we take from this one to carry into the next." -Lori Deschene
"So my advice for you today is to do it. I don’t know what that is for you, or where you are in life. I don’t know what you have on your plate, but don’t let anything, anyone hold you back any longer. Clean up the mess, cut some strings, walk away, quit, do what you have to do to stay true to yourself. If you’re not happy then change something. If you need some adventure, create it." -Alexis Jones
"Running, as in life, isn't about hours and minutes - it's about heart. The difficult moments you face where you can either CRUMBLE or you can CONQUER." ... via Daily Mile
"So my advice for you today is to do it. I don’t know what that is for you, or where you are in life. I don’t know what you have on your plate, but don’t let anything, anyone hold you back any longer. Clean up the mess, cut some strings, walk away, quit, do what you have to do to stay true to yourself. If you’re not happy then change something. If you need some adventure, create it." -Alexis Jones
“I like to say, and I truly believe, that every run brings new experiences. You just don't know what they might be until you actually do the run. That's one of my major reasons for pushing out the front door as often as I do—the adventure of it all.” —Amby Burfoot
"I've learned that finishing a marathon isn't just an athletic achievement. It's a state of mind; a state of mind that says anything is possible." John Hanc, running writer
"In the midst of regular life, running is the touchstone that breathes adventure into my soul. I can feel the trail under my feet, the press of the hill, the gallop of the track, the burn of my lungs, the stir of wonder and possibility. Running reminds me that there is more to me than what is readily apparent much of the time. I don't always need to see it, but oh how I need to know it's there. Like having an alter ego, or a super-cool super-hero identity." Kristin Armstrong, Author and runner
"Running has given me the courage to start, the determination to keep trying, and the childlike spirit to have fun along the way. Run often and run long, but never outrun your joy of running." Julie Isphording, Marathon winner
"Do the work. Do the analysis. But feel your run. Feel your race. Feel the joy that is running." Kara Goucher, American long-distance runner
"It's a dream until you write it down, and then it's a goal." – Anonymous
"Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year. Eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever." - Lance Armstrong
"There will be days you don't think you can run a marathon. There will be a lifetime of knowing you have." -Unknown
"Always continue the climb. It is possible for you to do whatever you choose, if you first get to know who you are and are willing to work with a power that is greater than ourselves to do it." -Ella Wheeler Wilcox
"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." -T.S. Eliot
I have learned that there is no failure in running, or in life, as long as you keep moving. It’s not about speed and gold medals. It’s about refusing to be stopped. You might find that one particular direction proves difficult, but there are many directions on a compass. Infinite, in fact. As long as you keep searching, you’ll find your way.” - Amby Burfoot
“The purpose of life is to discover your gift. The meaning of life is to give your gift away.” -David Viscott
"You can't sit around and wait for the storm to be over. You've got to learn how to dance in the rain." (Anonymous)
"Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love like you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."- Mark Twain
"As runners, we all go through many transitions-- transitions that closely mimic the larger changes we experience in a lifetime. First, we try to run faster. Then we try to run harder. Then we learn to accept ourselves and our limitations, and at last, we can appreciate the true joy and meaning of running." Amby Burfoot
This describes the pure essence of why we run. Spoken about Roger Bannister, the first man to break the 4-minute mile.
"One late afternoon, after swimming in a lake, he began to jog around to ease his chill. Soon enough he found himself running for the sheer exhilaration of it, across the moor and toward the coast. The sky filled with crimson clouds, and as he ran a light rain started to fall. With the sun warming his back, a rainbow appeared in front of him, and he seemed to run toward it. Along the coast the rhythm of the water breaking against the rocks eased him, and he circled back to where he had begun. Cool, wet air filled his lungs. Running into the sun now, he had trouble seeing the ground underneath his feet, but still he rushed forward, alive with the movement. Finally spent as the sun disappeared from the horizon, he tumbled down a light hill and rested on his back, his feet bleeding, but feeling rejuvenated. He needed to reconnect to the joy of running, to get away from the tyranny of the track" -Neil Bascomb, The Perfect Mile
“In running, it doesn’t matter whether you come in first, in the middle of the pack, or last. You can say, ‘I have finished.’ There is a lot of satisfaction in that.” -Fred Lebow, New York City Marathon co-founder
" Our running shoes are really erasers. Every step erases a memory of a past failure. Every mile brings us closer to a clean slate. Each footstrike rubs away a word, a look, or an event that led us to believe that success was beyond our grasp." -John Bingham
“Always do what you are afraid to do.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” - Maya Angelou
"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."
- Henry David Thoreau
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” -Confucius
"It is the job of mothers to never give up, to leave no stone unturned. Mothers must believe well beyond all else, must hope all things and endure all things. Must show the kind of faith that moves mountains." -- Dr. Lewis Mehl-Madrona, author Coyote
"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately; I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life; to put to route all that was not life and not, when I came to die, discover that I have not lived." Thoreau
